Posted on 01/21/2024 6:16:30 PM PST by packagingguy
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Sunday the death of two Navy SEALs who went missing off the coast of Somalia, according to a press release.
News broke Jan. 13 that two SEALs went missing Jan. 11 after a mission to seize a sailboat — called a dhow — loaded with parts for Iranian medium-range ballistic missiles went wrong. Since the incident, officials had been searching for the two SEALs for 10 days. CENTCOM has stated in a press release, however, that while they have not located the bodies, their status has now been “changed to deceased.”
“We regret to announce that after a 10-day exhaustive search, our two missing U.S. Navy SEALs have not been located and their status has been changed to deceased. The search and rescue operation for the two Navy SEALs reported missing during the boarding of an illicit dhow carrying Iranian advanced conventional weapons Jan. 11 concluded and we are now conducting recovery operations,” CENTCOM stated.
During the attempt to board the ship from a small operations combat craft, a swell had caught one of the SEALs and pulled him underwater, with the second jumping in to attempt to save him, according to the press statement.
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why wouldn’t they be considered captured??
The news just broke and hour ago.
Rest In Peace.
It said they were swept up in an ocean swell. Apparently it was nature and the ocean that killed them.
I don’t believe sh*t out of our government
Who knows?
exactly
Because they probably died of drowning or exposure.
They know they are lost. To delay the announcement would delay insurance pay to their families.
Wasted by a government too pussified to stop ships like this with the 5 inch deck gun.
May they both Rest in Eternal Peace.
The Biden administration has had a history of lying to us.
Don’t you think it’s a good idea to verify they are carrying arms before blasting them?
This story doesn’t make sense to me.
The boat the SEALs took out was just manned by two SEALs?
One story said they boarded the dhow and detained 12 men.
It also said they sank the dhow.
Regardless of that, we still owe our guys a little respect.
The Sailor’s 23rd Psalm
The Lord is my pilot, I shall not drift.
He guides me across the dark waters.
He steers me through deep channels.
He keeps my log.
Yea, though I sail ‘mid the thunders
and tempest of life,
I shall dread no anger, for He is with me;
His love and His care, shelter me.
He prepares a quiet harbor before me.
He anoints the waves with oil.
My ship rides calmly.
Surely sunlight and starlight
shall guide me on the voyage I take,
And I will rest in the heaven’s port forever.
Amen.
It was also WARM water so no chance of hypothermia and surely they would have a beacon on them so why the need to search 21,000 square miles.
We’ve all been lied to by the Feds so much. In my life, the Warren Commission put me on guard, then the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, then more recently the weapons of Mass destruction in IRAG.....to name just a few lies.
It’s simply impossible to believe anything the government says anymore.
NO. It doesn't say THAT at all.
It says: During the attempt to board the ship from a small operations combat craft, a swell had caught one of the SEALs and pulled him underwater, with the second jumping in to attempt to save him, according to the press statement.
It doesn't say how many others were on the "small operations combat craft", but these vessels usually carry from 6-12 men.
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